> ("65536-byte tape record too large for 32256-byte user buffer") and
> unreadable backups.
Not to minimize the problem, but there's an obvious workaround in the
form of
dd bs=65536 if=(whatever) | tar (whatever)
> However, it's a serious regression in functionality to not support
> larger blocksizes on _read_, leaving people unable to restore old
> backups...
No, just to be unable to restore them the obvious way. Unless dd has
been broken too, you can surely read them and restore them as above.
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